Apparel-waistband.



N0..1645,775. Patented Mar. 20, |900. L. ZAZEELA.`

APPAREL WAISTBAND.

(Applicationmed Jan. 1s, 1900.)

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LOUIS ZAZEELA, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-WAISTBAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent N o. 645,775, dated March 20, 1900.

Application filed January 1S, 1900. Serial No. 1,885. (No model.)

To all wiz/071?, zt'mrtg/ concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS ZAZEELA, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVaistbands for Childrens Garments,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One object of my invention is to provide a waistband in which the buttonholes when cut need not be worked at their edges, as usual, since they are reinforced and protected by strips of a stouterr material than that of theband, each reinforcing or protective strip having a buttonhole cut therein which registers with a buttonhole in the band.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for fastening the protective material to the band and especially provide for the protection of buttonholes in such material as that known upon the market as pocketing7 goods.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a waistband having the improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of a portion of the waistband with the improvement applied, showing the band as attened or before the band is folded to the desired form; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the complete band on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

Arepresents the material of thewaistband, which material may be of any character, but preferably what is known as pocketing goods is used. The material adapted to constitute the band is made of suitable width and length, and at suitable intervals in the said band, near the upper edge 13, buttonholes 10 are cut. These buttonholes are not worked, beingleftas they are primarily formed. Strips of protective material 11 are glued, cemented, or otherwise directly attached to the band A upon what will be the inner face of the band when made up. These strips 11 are adapted to protect and reinforce the buttonholes 10, made directly in the band, and to that end have buttonholes l2 cut in them, which will register with the buttonholes 10 of the band. The protective or reinforcing strips 11 are made of any material that is stronger than the material from which the band is madeas, for example, the protective strips 11 may be made of leather, canvas, or the like; but the material that is preferably used for said vprotective or reinforcing strips is a material which will not ravel when cut.

The protective strips 11 extend below the bottom of the buttonholes to such an extent that when the band A is folded upon itself, as is usual, a portion of the protective or reinforcing strips will extend upward at the front face of the band or that face which is attached to the garment. The band is provided with the usual upper hem 14, and as the hem is made the line of stitching 15 forming the hem will extend across the upper ends of the protective or reinforcing strips and will serve as an additional means for attaching them to the body of the band.

When the pockets 17 are made in the band by means of the ordinary serpentine line of stitching 16 or by equivalent means, such stitching extends through the band and across the inner bottom portions of the strips and the upper portion of the upturned sections of the reinforcing-strips, thus holding them firmly and securely to the band. By means of this improvement the buttonholes of a waistband, especially the buttonholes of bands adapted for boys knee pants, are prevented from being readily'torn out or mutilated, and the result is obtained at much less cost than when the buttonholes are worked in the usual way.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a waistband for juvenile pants, consisting of a front and a back section, pockets formed between the sections,'the front section being provided with buttonholes produced therein, the edges of which are left raw or unworked, and protective strips of leather located at each buttonhole portion of the band, extending transversely across the inner face of the IOO inner section of the band and transversely ing forming the hem of the band and the alross the outer face of the outer section of pockets of the same. t e baud said roteetive stries bein0F also w provided Vith butonholes Whieregiste with LOUIS ZAZELLA 5 the buttonholes in the band, the protective Vitnesses:

strips being cemented to the band `and addi- ABRAHAM BERNSTEIN, tioually seem-ed thereto by the lines of stiteh- MAX SCHEUKMAN. 

